WILLIAM MOUGAYAR

Managing PartnerJM3 Capital

Acknowledged thought leader on blockchain and author of bestseller book "Business Blockchain"

OLGA FELDMEIER

CEOSMART VALOR

A visionary entrepreneur focusing on the intersection of banking and blockchain technology.

JOERG GASSER

State SecretaryFederal Department of Finance

State Secretary for International Finance at the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) and Lead Blockchain/ICO working group.

BILL BARHYDT

Founder & CEOAbra

Technology pioneer, serial entrepreneur, speaker and sports enthusiast. Bill’s passion is information technology and how it can be used to improve lives. He is an advisor and investor in many companies in the payments, telecom and consumer Internet sectors.

TEKIN SALIMI

Project ManagerPolychain Capital

Tekin works closely with portfolio projects to add value across multiple verticals.

THOMAS POWER

Member Board of Director9 Spokes

CEO & Co-founderOutlier Ventures

Europe's first dedicated blockchain VC and pioneer of the Convergence Thesis focused on how DLT & crypto assets combine with Deeptech like AI, IoT and Autonomous Robotics.

ERIC LARCHEVEQUE

CEOLedger

Serial entrepreneur since 1996, Eric founded several companies in various sectors across Europe. In 2013, he discovered Bitcoin and the blockchain technology that struck him as the fourth industrial revolution.

SAM CHADWICK

Director, Financial & Risk InnovationThomson Reuters

Focusing on alternative finance, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Board member of the Crypto Valley Association.

RUEDI NOSER

Parliament MemberFDP.The Liberals

Entrepreneur, politician, lateral thinker, innovative mind and staunch liberal. Since 2015 part of the city council for FDP. The driving force behind Swiss innovation and startup support.

OLIVER BUSSMANN

Founder & Managing PartnerBussmann Advisory

A senior technology executive with 25+ years of influential leadership in different industries (high tech and financial service) with UBS, SAP, Allianz, Deutsche Bank and IBM.

RICHARD TITUS

Board Member, Coach, EntrepreneurARK

Technology executive, an entrepreneur and film producer. Named one of the Wired 100 in 2010, Richard has a passion for technology and innovation.

JULIEN BRINGER

Chief Security and Cryptography ExpertSmart Valor

Co-founder, Security and cryptography expert, PhD. As an active researcher with more than 80 scientific publications and 50 pending patents he drives innovations in fields privacy and blockchain security.

VINAY GUPTA

FounderHexayurt Guy Capital Partners

BERND LAPP

CEOOld School GmbH & Business Hive in Swarm City

Several years of management experience across multiple industries, including finance, digital media and sports.

RICHARD MUIRHEAD

General PartnerOpenOcean

Technologist, internet entrepreneur, investor and Bitcoin pioneer.

ALEXANDRE AZOULAY

Managing PartnerSGH Capital

A serial entrepreneur with solid experience in marketing and operations.

MARC BETTINGER

DirectorForctis AG

Building the next revolution in Blockchain.

RICHARD OLSEN

FounderLykke Corp

Building a movement to build a global marketplace utilizing the Blockchain technology pioneered by Bitcoin.

DANIEL HAUDENSCHILD

CEOSwisscom Blockchain AG

With 20 years of proven systems enabled transformation delivery, he assists organizations to envisage and translate business challenges into practical deployment of applications.

PATRICK BARON

CEOAmbisafe Financial

Experienced at helping companies through the Initial Coin Offering process. Interests include science, philosophy, religion and changing the world for the better.

FELIX SIMON

Director, Business DevelopmentSmart Valor

With 10 years of Investment Banking & Private Banking experience as M&A, Derivative Structuring & Sales professional, Felix is responsible for Business Development at Smart Valor AG. As blockchain-actor he sees value in bringing together bold entrepreneurship, corporate finance proficiency and creative investment structuring for actors with aligned interests and long-term view.

DINIS GUARDA

CEO and FounderLifesci - ztudium

A CEO, board member, digital and crypto economics driver and evangelist, writer. Listed in various top 100/10%/1% most influential people in fintech, blockchain, social media, insurtech and AI.

NICOLAS BRAND

PartnerLakestar

A partner at LAKESTAR, a global venture capital group that invests in highly disruptive technology companies across all stages of their lifecycle. Nicolas runs the group's activities in blockchain and the digital asset space.

SEBASTIAN BAERHOLD

Managing Director & Co-FounderIDnow

Chairman and CEONano Vision

The Honorable Steve Papermaster is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Nano, the molecular data and nanoscale digital technology leader. He has 30 years of experience as a career technology entrepreneur, public policy expert, global speaker, and noted author.

JAN BRZEZEK

CEO & Co-FounderCrypto Finance AG

He has passion for blockchain, cryptos and other exponential technologies and he believes in the disruptional effect on our society.

ERIC VAN DER KLEIJ

CEOCentre for Digital Revolution (C4DR)

A technology entrepreneur and CEO of C4DR Ltd, an international hub focussed on the 4th Industrial Revolution.

RUSLAN GAVRILYUK

Co-Founder & PresidentTaaS Fund

A co-founder of Token-as-a-Service (TaaS), a last generation closed end fund that allows its investors to capitalize on the rise of blockchain markets.

NIKLAS NIKOLAJSEN

CEOBitcoin Suisse AG

He co-founded Bitcoin Suisse AG in August 2013, together with Dr. Schweifer. Today he is responsible for operations, business development, marketing, investor relations, key accounts and software development.

MARKUS J. LOCHER

Managing DirectorCredit Suisse

Head of Strategy & Projects for private, corporate and institutional clients with extensive knowledge on private banking business development.

STEFAN KLESTIL

PartnerSpeedinvest

Over 20 years of experience in the international payments and banking technology space as Advisor, Executive, Incubator and Investor.

SUNNIE J. GROENEVELD

Managing PartnerInspire 925

Sunnie Groeneveld is a moderator and serial entrepreneur focussed on digital innovation and the future of work. She also is a board member of the IT company emineo AG, the engineering company HHM Group and vice chairwoman of the foundation Pro Zukunftsfonds Schweiz.

VINCENT EVERTS

FounderBlockchain Innovation Conference

A trendwatcher, passionate speaker, consultant, debate leader and video blogger, he is an inspired bridge builder: a man with original ideas who forges innovative links between new technology and the rest of the world. His true passion is innovation.

JOHN HARGRAVE

CEOMedia Shower

CEO of Media Shower, the media platform for ICOs, crypto, and blockchain projects. Publisher of Bitcoin Market Journal, the website for New Finance investors. Author, speaker, and truth teller.

DAVID DRAKE

ChairmanLDJ Cayman Fund Ltd.

David Drake and his family office LDJ Capital, has acted as GP & LP investors with his partners in fund-of-funds, realty funds, venture capital funds & hedge funds. Mr. Drake's investments currently have 50+ global directors that maintain relations with institutions & family offices with $1.5 trillion in assets.

DAVID WHITE

CEOKeyBox

A former Head of Technology Innovation at Royal Bank of Scotland, David has been working at the cutting edge of FinTech and AI technologies for 15 years. As CEO of import.io, David raised $20M from industry elites such as the MySQL founders and the co-founder of Yahoo Jerry Yang.

MATTIAS HJELMSTEDT

Founder & CEOUtopia Music

Tech visionary. Founder and Chairman Utopia Music, blockchain ecosystem for the music industry.

Successfully created companies since the early 1990s in the areas of: content distribution; streaming; online gaming; social media; and computer technologies.

NICOLAS BURER

Managing Directordigitalswitzerland

Nicolas Burer is the Managing Director of digitalswitzerland and Vice-President of the Swiss Startup Association, Nicolas Bürer has worked countless hours to connect a wide range of organizations and initiatives in order to promote Switzerland as a worldwide digital hub.

THOMAS NÄGELE

Attorney & Managing PartnerNÄGELE Attorneys at Law LLC

Thomas Nägele deals mainly with civil and corporate law as well as Internet / IT law and also performs the associated legal advice. He also specializes in corporate governance.

CHRISTIAN SALLER

General PartnerHoltzbrinck Ventures

Christian joined the team in 2013 and is managing the fund’s investments into Dreamlines, Easytaxi, Ozon and Onlinetours among others.

RALF GLABISCHNIG

Managing Partnerinacta AG

With 20 years of experience as a business and IT consultant and in a role as Managing Partner at inacta AG, a major Swiss Information Management solution provider, Ralf possesses extensive expertise in transforming the insurance industry, as well as a diverse entrepreneurial background stemming from several ventures and advisory board positions. Ralf is also the co-founder of Lakeside Partners, a leading early-stage investment company in Crypto Valley.

LORNA BLOUNT

Chief Growth OfficerVerma

Verma is the number one Blockchain and crypto growth marketing agency across USA and EMEA.

ANU BHARDWAJ

FounderWomen INVESTING in Women DIGITAL

Anu Bhardwaj is the Founder of the Women INVESTING in Women Global and previously spearheaded the U.S. Department of Commerce Private Equity/Venture Capital Certified Trade Missions to the Nordics and Middle East.

CLAUDIO PARRINELLO

Founder & CEOUnico

Serial entrepreneur, former research physicist, consultant and manager @CERN, Geneva.

LEWIN BOEHNKE

Head Of ResearchCrypto Finance AG

Lewin holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg. His research revolved around high-performance quantum Monte Carlo simulations of emergent behavior in strongly correlated systems. He wrote an algorithmic cryptocurrency trading bot in 2013/2014 that executed around 14k trades in a few months.

Mauro Casellini

Head of Corporate Clients and Payment Service ProvidersBank Frick & Co. AG

Maruo is responsible for corporate clients and payment service providers, fintech cases and crytpo and Blockchain cases.

Mathias Bucher

Founder and CEODiamond Digital AG

Evgeni Borisov

Founder & CEOVIMANA Global, Inc.

Evgeni is passionate about innovative technologies and how they can be used to advance and better ourselves. He has more than fifteen years of corporate executive experience, including work as Marketing Director of Toshiba and Phillips. He is leading VIMANA’s vision to develop novel Autonomous Aerial Vehicle technology and blockchain-backed Airspace Management Platform.

Christophe Le Bars

Chief ArchitectThe Rouge Project

Christophe is an early user of Bitcoin and a​ ​pioneer of Open Source and Internet technologies. He was the first​ ​French developer at the origin of the Debian GNU/Linux​ ​project. Christophe knows how to speak to machines and complex​ ​architectures are his stomping ground. In 1996 Christophe created the​ ​first and largest European professional services provider for Open​ ​Source software. In 2006, Christophe became a partner at Spill.net, a​ ​creative agency with an international team of strategists, designers​ ​and technologists.

Dejan Roljic

Founder & CEOEligma

Visionary, entrepreneur, innovator. Whether he is founding a company or helping others establish theirs, Dejan Roljič is not “just another suit” in the business world.

Joe DiPasquale

CEOBitBull Capital

Joe has been a cryptocurrency investor since 2013. He has a passion around education on the cryptocurrency space and produces video interviews with top crypto investors and technologists on his youtube, “Crypto Joe.” He’s a thought leader in crypto investing and speaks as an industry expert often, including on Bloomberg TV. (pw: bitbull)

Matthew Spoke

FounderAION Foundation

Miko Matsumura

Co-founderEvercoin Exchange

Miko founded crypto exchange Evercoin, is a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. As chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform he participated in the first wave of the Internet, and is now fully engaged in Internet of value.